Otherworldly October Hauls 2024 💜🔮

[bakeamuffin]

October is upon us and so are some amazing fall hauls!  Drop what you got and share your incredible beauty & beyond purchases 🍂 

 

[CorgiMommy]

Great hauls, I love the bath bombs @bakeamuffin 

[curlychiquita]

Great Tower 28 haul, @bakeamuffin, and I love the adorable Lush bath bombs!

[Samtian]

@bakeamuffin I love that Lush haul!! Highlighters run out?! 😱

[SportyGirly125]

@bakeamuffin Amazing Tower 28 and Lush haul!  They are so cute!

[WinglessOne]

Trying not to let all my monthly orders snowball into one or two big end-of-month posts again. 😅

Nordstrom - the cosmetics part of a “gotta use some expiring Nordy Notes” order: 

Bobbi Brown should add Sapphire to their permanent shadow stick lineup.

Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Waterproof Cream Eyeshadow Stick Limited Edition shades Emerald and Sapphire - still my favorite brand of eyeshadow sticks, and I’m glad I finally caught two of their special holiday colors. These are both metallic and creamy, and they felt lightweight on my hand. Emerald’s a blue spruce color on me, not emerald green—and I’m okay with that. Sapphire is gorgeous and I might buy a backup. In true Bobbi Brown shadow stick fashion, both shades were budgeproof once they set on my hand. 

Polish Pickup September (Vintage Halloween theme): 

One of these is a thermal polish; thermal shift photo will be in the spoiler tag below.

Closeup and color shift photos: 

Spoiler

Sassy Sauce Polish Simply Shreeeik is a thermal: 

Top is cold, bottom is warm.
Wildflower Lacquer I Know What You Did is magnetic. I pulled a simple diagonal line for the swatch. Here’s a closer look at that ghostly white-to-green flash: 

I was going to skip September’s PPU until I saw this polish.
Kathleen & Co Pumpkin Vibes is Mooncat Vaporize-esque, but it’s a much sheerer formula that needs building up (that’s 4 coats on my swatch stick). It’s color-shifty, but not as much as Vaporize. (Did I ever mention Vaporize is one of my favorite polishes ever?) Still pretty though. 

Color shifts of Pumpkin Vibes and I Know What You Did (the Sassy Sauce polish doesn’t shift as dramatically without temperature changes): 

Moving an LED lamp around to capture some color shifts.

[Sunnysmom]

Love all the colors here @WinglessOne , especially the BB sticks! They are so good on you! I love the new LE double ended! 

[WinglessOne]

Thanks @Sunnysmom ! I was trying not to buy the double ended ones, but I’m pretty sure Ulta has them so I could get ‘em for $0 OOP… and they’d be even better for travel than the single ended shadow sticks… and there’s a deep navy blue involved, so… yeah, I may need to place another Ulta order. 🤣

[Ispend2much6]

@WinglessOne  The BB shadow sticks are gorgeous on you! 

[WinglessOne]

Thanks @Ispend2much6 !

[Buootiful]

Is Bobbi Brown worth the hype? I recently discovered the past month how easy eyeshadow sticks are to use on the go to feel pretty. I might check those sticks out @WinglessOne Enjoy your haul!

[WinglessOne]

@Buootiful  Eh, depends on which Bobbi Brown product(s) we’re talking about, in terms of hype. Their shadow sticks are 100% worth it: they apply smoothly and blend easily for me—though you gotta blend fast because once they set, they don’t budge. 

I do think Laura Mercier’s shadow sticks (Laura Mercier Caviar Stick Cream Eyeshadow) blend even more easily, as do NARS’s reformulated shadow sticks (NARS Total Seduction Smudge-Proof Eyeshadow Stick). They’re probably easier for shadow stick newbies to work with. But neither of those 2 brands’ shadow sticks will set to a budgeproof finish like BB’s. With the BB sticks, I usually don’t need a shadow primer underneath. Heck, I’ve used neutral shades of BB sticks as primers while traveling: I always pack at least 2 shades for trips, including a neutral like Cashew or Taupe to double as a primer. These shadow sticks aren’t super tacky/grippy, but somehow they hold simple eye looks (using just 1-2 additional shades) in place on my hooded eyes. 

I also still like some of BB’s lipstick formulas, and still love Bobbi Brown Highlighting Powder. 

[lmaster]

I'm in awe of the Polish shift!! Gorgeous swatches 😍 @WinglessOne 

[WinglessOne]

Thanks @lmaster ! 

[caitbird]

@WinglessOne  fantastic hauls! Love the colors of the Bobbi Brown eyeshadow sticks, and the polishes you chose are so neat! Hope you enjoy them all!

[WinglessOne]

Thank you @caitbird ! 

[CorgiMommy]

That sapphire color is gorgeous @WinglessOne 

[WinglessOne]

Thanks @CorgiMommy !

[curlychiquita]

Love the Bobbi Brown colors, @WinglessOne, especially if they don’t budge!

[WinglessOne]

Thanks @curlychiquita ! That’s my favorite thing about BB’s shadow sticks in general: they stay put, even without a primer. 👍

[CynthieLu]

Those blues by Bobbi Brown look fantastic @WinglessOne  you haul the best stuff! 

Ooh your new nail polishes are stunning! Gorgeous picks!  I'm strictly window shop online with PPU lol, it's difficult 😅

[WinglessOne]

Thank you @CynthieLu ! Heh, PPU is very hard to resist sometimes. I try not to visit each month—but then I just end up at HHC instead. 🤦‍♀️ You have more resolve than I do. 😅